Pie Fries with Strawberry Ketchup

“LEFTOVERS IN THEIR LESS VISIBLE FORM ARE CALLED MEMORIES. STORED IN THE REFRIGERATOR OF THE MIND AND THE CUPBOARD OF THE HEART.” Thomas Fuller.

I often find that most food tastes better as leftovers, when it’s had time to sit and let the ingredients and flavors meld. But what I am really finding, as I bake, is that an ingredient for one recipe often drives the idea for another. I simply don’t want to waste, an often costly ingredient, and I want to use it up to the extent that I can. And so this morning I was making a pâte sucrée for some Pineapple Coconut Tarts. And I decided to turn the scraps into these delicious little cookies to be dipped in the leftover strawberry jam that I made from my Peanut Butter and Jelly Ice Cream.

Honestly, these were so surprisingly good, I’d consider making sweet pastry crust just for the purpose of making a big batch of these cookies! Or if you need a quick and easy dessert, you could even buy the pie crust dough, roll it, cut it and toss a little sprinkling sugar before baking for about 15 minutes. Serve with your favorite jam for dipping. I’ll never throw out those scraps again!

I love ideas like this! I can’t stand to waste food so I always try to come up with ways to use up the leftovers. These “fries” are so tempting, I would actually make the dough just for them Thank you so much for sharing them, Anne!

Anne… I am making the “bowing” motion towards you right now… you are awesome!! What a great idea… I would so eat this and forget making the pie… I want the dough fries like this to dip!! Really brilliant!

I feel it is really evil to throw out pastry scraps! There is quite a bit you can do with it as shown by your post here. Love the idea of dipping those flaky bits into jam-genius! My mom usually just sprinkled the scraps with cinnamon and baked them, however I like your idea a whole lot better. Well done!

You are amazingly creative! This definitely doesn’t look like leftovers and it absolutely doesn’t look like pie crust! These are cookies that even I could make, that is if I bought the pie crust. Beautiful presentation!

Wow, I had no idea these ‘fries’ were made from pie crust… there’s a twist for you alright ;-). You’re so creative Anne… and I’m especially smitten by the thought of your strawberry ketchup – what a delight!